[UA] The dim and distant past of... 1998

[Jonathan]

I was never a fan, but I remember ca. 1996-1998 as about the time that I became aware of that the bands Phish and Dave Matthews Band had to some extent replaced the Grateful Dead in terms of followers on tour, etc.

To that extent, a friend of mine once theorized while under the influence that Jerry Garcia had died and been replaced with an animatronic Jerry in order to prevent a panic amongst the faithful.  I'm sure you could do something with the True King, etc., if you want to mess with that idea.  

You should also look into what music was popular then.  At what point did Limp Bizkit and that kind of thing come out?  

Jonathan


--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Russell Rayburn <rusrayburn at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Russell Rayburn <rusrayburn at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [UA] The dim and distant past of... 1998
> To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 12:22 PM
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998
> 
> Random items from above:
> 
> January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and
> restaurants.
> February 18 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada,
> accused of
> plotting biological warfare on New York City subways.
> March 26 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are
> killed
> with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
> April 1 - Ukrainian serial killer Anatoly Onoprienko is
> sentenced to
> death for 52 murders.
> May 21 - Suharto resigns, after 32 years as President of
> Indonesia and
> his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian
> Parliament (MPR).
> Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie,
> becomes
> Indonesia's third president.
> June 25 - Clinton v. City of New York: The United States
> Supreme Court
> rules that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is
> unconstitutional.
> July 17 - In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and
> his family
> are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and
> his family
> were killed by Bolsheviks.
> September 7 - Google, Inc. is founded, in Menlo Park,
> California, by
> Stanford University Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey
> Brin.
> September 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.S. Congress
> passes the
> "Iraq Liberation Act", which states that the
> United States wants to
> remove Saddam Hussein from power and replace the government
> with a
> democratic institution.
> October 14 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings
> (including
> the 1996 Olympic bombing) in Atlanta, Georgia.
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